What is difference between enable password and enable secret?

[David Gauthier]

Neil,

The enable secret password is a encrypted password that overrides the plain
text password (i.e. when you do a show run). The enable secret is not
automatically generated, it must be entered throught the CLI. If you do
not know the enable secret password, you must do a password recovery to
remove the enable secret password from the config file.

dave

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David Gauthier (dgau...@bcse.nec.com)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Lovering [SMTP:nlov...@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 1:27 PM
To: Shoko TAKAHASHI
Cc: ci...@spot.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: What is difference between enable password and enable secret?

If you didn't set the enable secret, than somebody did. The command to set
the enable password has no effect on the enable secret. You might wanna
ask around and see who did it.

If both are present, the enable password has no effect.

Neil

At 04:51 PM 4/2/98 +0900, Shoko TAKAHASHI wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When I configured up cisco r2514 (IOS 11.0), I set up only enable
>password. ( I didn't configure enable secret. )
>
>But, when I saw the router configuration again a few days later, I
>have noticed the enable secret password was set in my router's
>configuration.
>
>I can't understand why it(enable secret configuration) is.
>When enable password set, is enable secret config made automatically?
>
>Please tell me what is difference between two password configuration,
>and also tell me when enable secret is set up.